Datang: Let you supervise the country and become an emperor through the ages

Chapter 103 Does the conscience not hurt?

Based on the latest strategy of the Tang Dynasty against the barbarians, Tubo has already become vigilant. The destruction of Xue Yantuo made Songtsen Gampo feel tempted, so he sent his own think tank to Chang'an in the name of courtship. City to investigate the situation.

"Foreign minister Lu Dongzan, see His Majesty the Emperor of Tang!"

Li Shimin waved his hand, "Excuse me, foreign ministers, I heard that you came to our Tang Dynasty this time to marry me?"

"Exactly." Lu Dongzan nodded again and again, "Tubo wishes to have good relations with the Tang Dynasty, so we Zanputi sent foreign ministers here to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, specially prepared 5000 taels of gold, countless treasures, and asked to marry the Tang Dynasty your Highness!"

Li Shimin smiled slightly and did not speak immediately. Instead, he looked towards Prince Li Fu.

Li Fu noticed Li Shimin's eyes, and his heart skipped a beat.

[Li Er, this old guy, why are you looking at me? They are asking you to marry their daughter, and I don’t have a daughter! 】

[But look at Li Er's eyes are not right, it seems that he is holding back something bad, it can't be that he wants me to send Princess Wencheng to Tibet, I won't do it! 】

[What the hell is there is not even a decent road to Tibet now, Tubo is still a plateau, I have altitude sickness, if I don’t go, I won’t even go if I am killed! 】

Li Fu complained all the time, which made Li Shimin stunned. What is it all about? I want to hear your opinion. Why is it so different? What is altitude sickness? As for such a big reaction?

Li Shimin hadn't figured out the altitude sickness yet, but Li Fu's reaction was even worse.

[Why, Li Er can't have some backbone. The Tang Dynasty actually wants to win over the hyena of Tibet and marry his own relatives. It's not that his daughter doesn't feel sorry for him. 】

[Li Chengtong is your junior after all. Won’t your conscience hurt if you marry a weak woman into a group of hyenas? 】

[Special marriages, to put it nicely, there are a few princesses who have made marriages with barbarians who have actually had good endings! 】

[Tubo made it clear that they came to test the attitude of the Tang Dynasty. How could they sincerely propose marriage? They sold a princess for 5000 taels of gold. The princesses of the Tang Dynasty were too worthless. 】

[Also, let’s talk about Tubo’s provocation on the border. I forgot about it so quickly. I know that no matter what strategies, big chess, or bullshit, it’s just a man. Men’s affairs should be solved in a man’s way! 】

[I always think about using peace in exchange for the so-called peace, so is that really peace?That's how the backbone of a man in Tang Dynasty was broken! 】

[When something happens, I just want to push the woman out of the marriage, and use the woman's body in exchange for comfort and enjoyment. This is not a marriage, this is shameless, putting one's face in the crotch, and completely annihilating the bloody scum! 】

[The spirit of the Han family, the iron bones of the Tang Dynasty were smashed like this, what a shame! 】

Li Fu's complaints set off an uproar in Li Shimin's mind. He never thought that Li Fu would be so repulsive to marriage, and it would rise to such a height.

But from a national and overall strategic point of view, Li Shimin does not think Li Fu's words are correct.

As the king of a country, he must consider the overall situation, and marriage is also a political method.

According to common sense, a marriage is either a princess from a foreign country marrying into the Central Plains and marrying the emperor, or a princess from the Central Plains marrying into a foreign country and marrying a foreign king.

But generally speaking, only the second kind of marriage situation will appear, and it didn't change until the Qing Dynasty.

Because the emperor of the Central Plains has always valued bloodline, if a foreign princess married into the Central Plains, the Central Plains emperor would invisibly become the junior of the foreign king. This was absolutely unbearable for the Central Plains emperor's self-esteem.

Therefore, the most common marriage is the princess of the Central Plains marrying into a foreign country, starting from the Han Dynasty and reaching its peak in the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, it is impossible for an emperor to marry his biological daughter to a harsh and cold wilderness to suffer, so the usual approach is to select a princess of the right age from the clan, give the princess a title, and then marry her off.

In Li Shimin's eyes, such a political method is definitely the correct choice. Not to mention the long-established practice in the previous dynasty, but only by sacrificing a woman's happiness, it can be exchanged for decades of peace and stability at the border. What a bargain!

But Li Fu's complaints woke Li Shimin up.

Not only because a married woman has no happiness in her life, but only uses her body to exchange for peace. This sentence makes Li Shimin never get over the hurdle in his heart!

Li Shimin has always regarded Emperor Qin and Han Wu as his idols. Those two emperors only had one word for the Hu people, fight!

In Qin Shihuang's reign, after Han Wu was really in charge, the two faced the Hu people and never thought of getting married.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin suddenly realized that what Li Fu said was right, I want to be an emperor through the ages, how can I exchange the happiness of women for the peace of the border!

It is possible to exchange a woman for ten years of peace at the frontier, but after ten years, I am gone, what about my descendants?Marrying another princess may only get you less than five years of peace. What's the point of such peace?
You must still be strong. Only if you are strong enough and conquer the barbarians directly, can there be long-term peace!
Li Shimin had already made up his mind, but Li Fu's complaints were not over yet.

[Let Li Er keep the tiger as a problem, the white-eyed wolf in Tubo seems to have developed after Princess Wencheng got married. 】

[This is all thanks to Li Er's generosity. In order to appease Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia County, the dowry given to him was really generous! 】

[It is because of these generous dowries that after the rapid development of Tubo, they don't pay much attention to Datang, and then find the right opportunity to invade brazenly. 】

[If I remember correctly, it seems that Tubo really hit the city of Chang'an, scaring the then Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to flee in a panic. 】

[Yes, the city of Chang'an was captured by the Tubo people, and an emperor was established, who was also a so-and-so from the Tang clan, who acted as a puppet to help them rule the Tang Dynasty. 】

[At that time, most of the territory of the Tang Dynasty was owned by Tubo, and millions of Tang people were reduced to subjugated slaves. This was all a good thing done by Li Ergan! 】

Buzz - Li Shimin felt bad after hearing this.

He never expected that a small Tubo in his eyes would show their true colors later on, crazily occupying the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and even broke into Chang'an City, using the people of the Tang Dynasty as slaves.

I don't know, it's okay to say, I know, with Li Shimin's temper, how can he bear it?Absolutely can't bear it!
[So Li Er likes to get married, just let him pee and defecate. I will make preparations slowly now. 】

[What the hell, unless you don't become the emperor, you can't be the emperor. I'm going to fight Tubo even if I'm the governor of Qinzhou. 】

[Send some gold and jewelry, you have to marry a princess, bah, go dreaming! 】

(End of this chapter)